EndoTheia, Inc., co-founded by MABE Associate Professor Caleb Rucker has announced the successful completion of the first-in-human clinical trial for the FlexStone™ Basket, the first-ever independently steerable kidney stone basket.

MABE Associate Professor Caleb Rucker and a team from the University of Tennessee are part of a landmark, multi-institution surgical robot project that received up to $12 million in funding from ARPA-H.